Some appointments — the DMV first of all — are gone the moment they appear, and the only way in is to refresh a page all day or pay someone who runs bots. LineRight Regbot is a line instead: an open one, where everyone can see who is waiting and in what order. You take a place in it; the LineRight Regbot apps, running on the computers of everyone in line, watch for openings; and when one comes up that is yours, your own app books it for you, from your own computer.
We are a nonprofit initiative built around a simple idea: access to scarce public services and opportunities should be transparent, predictable, and under your control.
Everyone can get in line. Everyone can see the line. Nobody has to pay to participate. People can improve their position through legitimate means—and those in genuine need should not be left behind.
A queue for appointment systems that never have enough slots, run in the open. It is not the DMV and does not sell appointments: it keeps an honest order among the people who want one, and gets each opening to the first of them who can take it.
Every line is public: how many people are waiting, in what order, and what each place is staked at. Nobody is quietly ahead of you, and a bot that wants a slot has to stand in the same list as everyone else — at a position anybody can see — and outbid rather than out-refresh.
The desktop apps of the people in line take turns looking at the booking site for cancellations, each from its own computer, and report what they see. The LineRight Regbot site decides who is first. Finding a slot gives nobody a claim on it — the order does.
Your name, licence number and date of birth never reach LineRight Regbot. They are kept by the app on your computer, which types them into the booking form itself when your turn comes — the same form you would have filled in by hand.
LineRight Regbot covers 1 booking system so far. Need one it does not? Ask for a line →
Here, on this site. It holds your places in line and your credits — nothing else about you. It starts with ⧗35 credits, free.
The app shows a short code; you approve it here while signed in. It never asks for your password. It can bring your details across from the browser you already use.
Choose the service, an office or anywhere within a few miles, and the dates that suit you. Stake credits on your place; raise if you need to move up.
It takes its turn looking for openings for everyone, and hears within a second when one is yours — and earns you credits while it checks. You can get on with your day.
Your app books it with the details on your computer and tells you the confirmation. If the site wants a human check, it opens the page for you to finish.
An opening is worth something for seconds to minutes — anyone outside LineRight Regbot can book it too. So it goes to the front of the line quickly, and never waits on somebody who is not there.
Every cancellation is a small event with a beginning and an end: a slot appears on an office's calendar, and a little later it is gone. Nobody publishes how long that "little later" is. The LineRight Regbot apps, taking turns to look at the calendars for everyone in line, see both ends of it. So the app can show you, for the offices you care about, how many openings came, when, how long each one lasted, and what became of it.
Picture a wildlife camera that takes one photo every couple of minutes. A bird that is on the feeder in one photo and gone in the next left somewhere in between; you never see the moment, but you know the window. The apps work the same way. Each look at an office notes which slots are there. A slot that was missing from the last look was born in between; the first look that no longer finds it says it died in between. Every opening's life is caught between two snapshots: at least as long as it was seen, at most until the look that missed it. The app takes the middle.
Statisticians call this interval-censored data, the kind a doctor gets from a condition checked only at appointments. Its honest limit is the shutter speed: with a look every couple of minutes, a slot that lived five seconds and one that lived ninety look the same. Both were simply "gone by the next look".
Openings vanish for three kinds of reasons. People book them by hand. LineRight Regbot users book them, and those are drawn in green, so the line never mistakes itself for the competition. And some are taken by scripts that refresh the calendar every few seconds and book the instant something appears. Nobody announces how many of those there are, and you cannot watch one work. But ecologists face the same problem with animals they never see: they put seeds out on a tray and time how quickly they disappear, and the pace of removal tells them how many mice are about. The openings are our seeds. These are the fingerprints to look for:
It is in the app for every line: under the order book, and on the console's Openings tab for each of your bids. Get the app →
A place in a line is staked with credits. A bid holds them while you wait; they come back in full if you leave the line, or if the booking does not happen. They are spent only when an appointment is booked for you, or 30% of them when your turn comes and you let it run out — and a bid your credits cannot cover is refused. You do not have to pay for any:
Enough for a place in a line, without paying anything.
With fewer than ⧗35 to spend, you are given the rest. Credits on your places do not count, so the longer you wait, the more you can stake.
Leave the app running with checking on: it looks for openings for everyone in line, and earns you credits while it does.
Want to move up faster? Buy more:
A few entry bids.
+ AI booking oversightEnough to hold a line.
+ AI booking oversightFight for the top slot.
+ AI booking oversightHold the top slot on a busy line.
+ AI booking oversightFirst in every line you need.
+ AI booking oversightNo. LineRight Regbot is independent. It books through the same public booking site you would use, with your details, from your computer — it just gets there when a slot opens, in the order of the line.
No. Every account starts with ⧗35 credits and is topped up to ⧗35 to spend every week, and your app earns ⧗0.2 an hour while it checks lines for everyone. Buying credits is only a way to move up faster.
No. The credits on a bid are only held. Leave the line, or let the booking not happen, and they all come back to you. They are spent only when an appointment is booked for you.
The app books it without you, as long as it is running and online. If it cannot — the site wants a human check, or the app is closed — the slot goes on to the next person, and you keep your place for the next opening.
Because everyone's app looking together sees far more than any one of them could, and nobody has to run a server farm to do it. What your app finds goes to whoever is first — which is sometimes you, and the hours it spends checking earn you credits. You can turn it off in the app's settings.
California DMV is the first booking system LineRight Regbot talks to for real. The app will not look or book on the real DMV until you say it may, in its settings — it is automated traffic from your own internet address, and a booking it makes is a real appointment in your name.
They can bid more, in the open, where everyone can see it — which is the point. The line shows what a place is worth to the people in it, instead of the slot going to whoever runs the fastest script.
Ask for it on the Ask for a line page, or from the app's Sites screen: which site, which appointments, where. Everyone who asks for the same one is counted together, so the most wanted come first, and you see the answer under your account and in the app. If you run a booking system and want a line for it, say so there too.
Withdraw from a line in the app and your credits come back at once. Unpair an app from your account page. The app's Start over deletes everything it keeps on your computer.
Everything that runs on your computer is open source. The LineRight Regbot app — the robots that look for openings and book them, the AI that watches over them, and the code that keeps your details on your machine — is published on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence. You do not have to take our word for what it does: read it, build it, improve it.
The line itself — places, credits and payments — is kept on this site, which LineRight Regbot runs.
Version 0.4.6 · free. The desktop app is where you join lines, watch them and book, with your details kept on your machine; this site is where you create your account, approve the app and buy credits.
Built from the open-source code at grandrew/lineright-client — every release, with its notes, is there.
On a Mac, the first time: the app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS will not open it at first. Try once, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway next to LineRight Regbot. You only do this once. The page the button opens shows each step, with pictures — and Windows' own “Windows protected your PC”, too.
An account holds your places in line and your credits. Your name and details are not part of it — those stay in the app, on your machine.
⧗35 credits when you join, topped up every week, so you can take a place without buying any.
The first time it opens, the app asks you to create your account — or sign in — and shows
a code like K4T2-9XQD. It opens the
pairing page with that code in it; approve it, and the app signs in as you within a few seconds.